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Aeolun on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deno will stop using TypeScript

Esbuild is cool, but if it doesn’t check the types then using Typescript is a bit pointless in the first place.

Guess a combination of esbuild during development, and tsc during commit would be the best of both worlds.

satvikpendem on July 1, 2020 [–]

Not necessarily, TS issues are found in the editor which is where most of the use is. I don't test types only on compile but usually through VSCode itself.

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